Exim global procmailrc

2002-10-26 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello If I set up a global /etc/procmailrc file for using spamassassin, it seems to be ignored (ie, spamassassin doesn't ever get run). So is there any setting that needs to be changed / made to the plain vanilla exim of the testing distribution to allow this? Cheers, Sven PS: Please CC: me

Mail cleaning script

2001-12-18 Thread Sven Burgener
Dear Debian Mates (I'd like to be CC'ed on replies) I am looking for a script that cleans out mails contained in the mail-files in /var/spool/mail/ that are older than a specific date, say 6 months, for example. Is there any such beast? Cheers, Sven

ipchains and logging to the console

2001-08-03 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi fellow debs Short and simple question: How can ipchains be told not to log to /dev/console? It can get quite annoying when your terminal gets all messed up with packet logs ... Cheers! Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-22 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:53:35PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: What is the need for the seperate variable $BEGINREGEX? It complicates things enormously when you want a variable $no to be evaluated whenever $BEGINREGEX is evaluated. The only sane way out is to completely reevaluate $BEGINREGEX

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-22 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:36:55AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: my $template = '^!-- // begin of news%no% // !--$'; my $no = 99; my $bla = $template; $bla =~ s/%no%/$no/g; $replace{no} = 99; $bla =~ s/%(.+?)%/$replace{$1}/g; Disclaimer: these are trivial and not terribly robust

[OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-21 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I have a problem with some perl code. I know this is off-topic, but there are numerous knowledgeable people on deb-usr, so forgive me for posting this. Now to my problem. Given the following variable, my $BEGINREGEX = sprintf(\^!-- // begin of news\$no // !--\$\); the following eval()

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-21 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:46:25PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:04:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: my $BEGINREGEX = sprintf(\^!-- // begin of news\$no // !--\$\); Please tell us what you're trying to accomplish first. It is unclear what assumptions you are making

Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-26 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:33:49PM -0500, will trillich wrote: or, maybe try use File::Find; my @list = (); find( \iterator , ./path/one , /another/path/here); munge( @list ); sub iterator { push @list,$File::Find::name

[perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-24 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all Sorry if this is too off-topic, but on debian-user there is usually excellent help, so I cannot resist. =) How do I deal with the situation where glob(*) is used and where there are files that contain spaces in their file names? I know spaces in file names suck. I have no choice. It's

experiences w/ linuxconf

2001-04-03 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi fellow debs If anyone has made any experiences with linuxconf on Debian, would they mind sharing it with me? I have never used it and I would merely like to know how well it works on Debian and not so much whether it's a good idea to use it or not. =) In other words: is it 'well-integrated'

[OT] _(STRING) notation

2001-03-17 Thread Sven Burgener
(This applies to programming in C) What is the significance of the '_' character in the following usage? printf(_(This is fetchmail release %s), VERSION); Why the '_' and why the additional ()'s around the string constant? This looks like _ does something special to the ()-part...?

resizing /

2001-03-10 Thread Sven Burgener
hey debs is there any way to resize the slash partition without physically 'moving' the hard disk into a different computer? is this at all possible?? resize2fs tells me about slash being mounted and that it's not possible to resize a partition in such a state... i suppose i have to use a

simple shell question

2001-03-05 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Can one determine *when* a file was moved into a specific directory? I guess not, as that means making a change to the directory in question and not the file. Cheers Sven PS: Please *DO* CC: me. Thank you.

redirecting to diff. machine with ipchains

2001-02-13 Thread Sven Burgener
is it possible to redirect incoming traffic onto some other machine's port, that is not publically accessible (private address), using only ipchains. if so, cool. if not, what other tools / methods are needed to accomplish this? thanks Sven

Crash?!?

2001-02-03 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello everyone Last night something weird happened. I was locally on my Debian GNU/Linux machine, doing some chatting, whilst suddenly the whole system seemed to get into an unusable state. I could still switch VTs, but could not login on any of them. Funnily was I able to login remotely,

.procmailrc multiple actions

2001-02-02 Thread Sven Burgener
Is it possible to specify multiple action lines for any given procmail rule? Like, say I want to achieve the following requirements: o rewrite the To: header field such that it will appear as what I rewrite it at the recepient. o do the same (or insert) a CC: header field. o then send

Re: .procmailrc multiple actions

2001-02-02 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 07:02:01PM +0100, Marc A. Donges wrote: On Friday, February 02, 2001 at 18:41:16 (+0100), Sven Burgener wrote: --8-- :0 * ^From: Mail Delivery Subsystem | (formail -I To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) |\ (formail -I CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) | $SENDMAIL -t

Permissions in /var/log; logrotate

2001-02-01 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all What should permissions and ownerships for files under /var/log be? I have the following: (really long list) /var/log/: total 4281 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jan 14 02:26 apache -rw-r-1 root adm120381 Feb 1 19:08 auth.log -rw-r-1 root adm

Re: How to make apt-get upgrade interactive?

2001-01-20 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:09:30PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: APT::Get::Show-Upgraded true; I have the following and it works: APT::Get::Show-Upgraded yes; Cheers, Sven -- {sum += $2} END {print sum}, said Tom awkwardly.

/etc/init.d/portmap

2001-01-13 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Could anyone tell me what package this file belongs to? $ dlocate /etc/init.d/portmap $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap dpkg: /etc/init.d/portmap not found. Apparently this doesn't belong anywhere. How did it get onto the system then? Cheers Sven -- {sum += $2} END {print sum}, said Tom

Re: /etc/init.d/portmap

2001-01-13 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 06:30:58PM -0600, ktb wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:04:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: $ dlocate /etc/init.d/portmap $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap dpkg: /etc/init.d/portmap not found. Apparently this doesn't belong anywhere. How did it get onto

Re: /etc/init.d/portmap

2001-01-13 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:34:21PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap netbase: /etc/init.d/portmap ?? Thanks for the info, but I run woody. Cheers, Sven -- {sum += $2} END {print sum}, said Tom awkwardly.

Linux 2.4.0 root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello After having built and installed my custom linux-2.4.0-deb, I get the following when booting: [boot msgs] VFS: Cannot open root device 803 or 08:03 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 After which booting halts. $ rdev

Re: Linux 2.4.0 root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Burgener
Just to clarify: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:35:08PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18 Root device /dev/sda3 (Booting with 2.2.18 works) $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0 Root device /dev/sda3 ... but not with 2.4.0. Thanks in advance! Sven

Re: Linux 2.4.0 root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:07:00PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just to clarify: $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18 Root device /dev/sda3 (Booting with 2.2.18 works) $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0 Root device /dev/sda3 ... but not with 2.4.0

Re: Linux 2.4.0 root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:13:25PM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:35:08PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device 803 or 08:03 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 Did you remember to say 'yes

Re: Linux 2.4.0 root fs problem (*help*, *help*)

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:19:41PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: Well, it's a pain but I'd go through the config the old-fashioned way, eg.: make clean make-kpkg clean make distclean make (xconfig|config|menuconfig) make-kpkg whatever Something

Apache graceful as non-root

2001-01-09 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Is there a way to do apachectl graceful as non-root user? Because when I do, I get an error about denied permission for binding to port 80. Cheers, Sven

Re: Apache graceful as non-root

2001-01-09 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Nate [yes, do CC: me] Nate Amsden wrote: Sven Burgener wrote: Is there a way to do apachectl graceful as non-root user? Because when I do, I get an error about denied permission for binding to port 80. you could i bet if you made apachectl setuid root but if security

useradd problem(!)

2001-01-06 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello When I first installed Debian GNU/Linux on this machine, I reconfigured it so that there is a central user-group called users which all users of this system belong to. I have now reconfigured it back to the default: /etc/adduser.conf [...] USERGROUPS=yes [...] When running useradd,

Re: useradd problem(!)

2001-01-06 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 05:44:04PM +, Malcolm Parsons wrote: useradd and adduser are two different programs from two different pacakges, the configuration of one does not affect the other: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/useradd passwd: /usr/sbin/useradd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg

Restarting Apache as non-root

2001-01-04 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello all [please CC me on replies] Is there a way to restart Apache gracefully as a non-root user? I don't want to write a wrapper suid program and I don't want to execute the shell script (doing the graceful restart) as root. I mean, Apache is already up and running as root (father

Re: newbee -- route (in file ?) ipchains ( in file ?)

2001-01-02 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:41:27PM +0100, M.B.Midden wrote: * where should i put rules like these to load them when i Boot or should i wright a script ( --scripting howto ??) ? ; /sbin/ifconfig eth0 isp_ip_here netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/ifconfig eth1 10.10.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: locale problem

2001-01-01 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 12:44:57PM +0100, Erich Baur wrote: Another thing is when I upgrade packages, in the process of doing so, I get this printed to the console: [...] perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

Re: Running something in a terminal

2001-01-01 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 09:11:08AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Monday, January 1, Rob VanFleet did write: On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 03:04:30AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: ...set your linewrap to 72 chars. Sorry, did some pasting in my last message and I guess I mucked things

Re: Running something in a terminal

2001-01-01 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:40:13PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 09:11:08AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: The bigger margin allows for more deeply-nested attributions before the lines start wrapping, that's all. That can

locale problem

2000-12-31 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Since doing a rather large dist-upgrade to woody recently, I have been experiencing problems with my locale settings. For one thing, I still cannot use German Umlauts with 'less'; it just prints '?'s instead of the actual characters... Another thing is when I upgrade packages, in the

Re: locale problem

2000-12-31 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 03:34:20AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: For one thing, I still cannot use German Umlauts with 'less'; it just prints '?'s instead of the actual characters... Correction: Umlauts *work* with 'less', but not with mutt. Another thing is when I upgrade packages

Re: 'testing' dep conflicts

2000-12-29 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:44:55PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:10:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: 1. Why are packages kept back like follows? [ snip ] First, since you're upgrading from potato to woody (you've changed distributions), you should use `apt-get

'testing' dep conflicts

2000-12-28 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I am running 'testing', upgraded from potato a few days ago. Two questions: 1. Why are packages kept back like follows? $ apt-get update apt-get upgrade Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Release Hit

'testing' dep conflicts

2000-12-25 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I am running 'testing', upgraded from potato a few days ago. Two questions: 1. Why are packages kept back like follows? $ apt-get update apt-get upgrade Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Release Hit

modprobe module problem (char-major-10-135)

2000-12-16 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello debs, How do I fix the following? modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 This appears when booting my potato box. Why does this come up? I mean, what is missing / wrong? Cheers Sven -- c:\ deltree /y \windows

Re: dpkg snapshot

2000-11-12 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:32:47AM -0500, Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) wrote: I have a hosed system, and I'd like to do a clean reinstall... I would like to keep the .deb configuration I had. Is there a way using eg dpkg to take a snapshot of the packages installed now, and feed this file

Re: dpkg snapshot

2000-11-12 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 04:50:16PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:32:47AM -0500, Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) wrote: I have a hosed system, and I'd like to do a clean reinstall... I would like to keep the .deb configuration I had. Is there a way using eg dpkg

Re: Some Newbie Questions

2000-11-07 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:28:06PM +1100, Damien wrote: as root, edit /etc/inittab, and put a # at the start of every line that doesn't already have one. you can then uncomment the services you want as you go. this file controls stuff like telnet, ftp etc. just to clarify: he must have meant

Setting Reply-To From fields dynamically

2000-10-31 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello This is rather urgent: does anybody know how I can simply set the Reply-To: and the From: fields for mails dynamically? This is on a Linux machine and mail is sent using mailx's mail program. The MTA is sendmail (which I know little about). If there's anything as simple as setting an

Re: Setting Reply-To From fields dynamically

2000-10-31 Thread Sven Burgener
Anthony Fox wrote: This is on a Linux machine and mail is sent using mailx's mail program. The MTA is sendmail (which I know little about). If there's anything as simple as setting an appropriate environment variable, that'd be just cool. The mail sending is done inside a (bourne)

Re: calculating disk space

2000-10-20 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:30:43PM +1300, C. Falconer wrote: C * H * S * kilobytes per sector Just what I needed. Cheers. Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux aka The Rock

calculating disk space

2000-10-19 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello all How can one calculate the amount of space a hard disk provides given only the disk's CHS values? Cheers Sven

Re: http port open?? how can that be?

2000-10-13 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:50:40AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open, however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it shows http being open. Also grc.com's port probe shows http being open. Thing is I just don't

Re: Books suggestions / ports question

2000-10-12 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:22:37PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Shell and tools cook book: Jerry D. Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides, _UNIX Power Tools, 2nd Edition_, O'Reilly, © 1997, 1120 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-260-3, US$55 I'll probably get this one next. :) You want to

Books suggestions / ports question

2000-10-10 Thread Sven Burgener
Fellow debs, o First, can anyone tell me if the book UNIX Power Tools is any good? It's from O'Reilly. If not, what alternatives are there to it? Any other book(s) one simply *must* own? :) Topics: UNIX / Linux / Networking / C Programming My current collection comprises DNS BIND,

Re: Off Topic: mutt and threading

2000-10-04 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:09:53PM -0400, Mike wrote: Sven Burgener wrote: If I leave a mailbox having new mails, they become _O_ld. I don't like this. Can this be changed so that mails stay _N_ew even when I leave a mailbox and return to it later? I hated that too. Turns out

Re: Off Topic: mutt and threading

2000-10-03 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:23:20PM -0500, will trillich wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:11:21PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: When I change into debian-user folder I have to always use o t for sort by thread. There has to be a way that I can tell mutt to always use threaded mode?

Problems with samba / printing

2000-10-01 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Whereabouts do you think the following problem lies? I can print on the system directly using lpr, but when accessing the printer via its Samba share, there is only a file written to the printer spool directory (with the correct permissions and all), but nothing is actually printed out.

Re: SW under /usr/local/

2000-09-29 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:47:29AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use GNU stow, but never actually saw anyone suggesting this to be *the* method. You have now ;) That's exactly how I deal with it, and I

SW under /usr/local/

2000-09-28 Thread Sven Burgener
Quick question on administration: what exactly is the best way to deal with locally installed software from source under the /usr/local/ or /opt/ tree? I use GNU stow, but never actually saw anyone suggesting this to be *the* method. How do you guys best deal with this? Comments anyone?

udp or tcp?

2000-09-24 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Is the following a tcp or a udp packet? How do I tell? Sep 24 15:20:25 host kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 \ PROTO=17 10.209.80.109:68 255.255.255.255:67 \ L=576 S=0x00 I=9145 F=0x4000 T=32 (#11) This seems to be a broadcast by the DHCP server of my cable provider,

Re: udp or tcp?

2000-09-24 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: Sep 24 15:20:25 host kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 \ PROTO=17 10.209.80.109:68 255.255.255.255:67 \ L=576 S=0x00 I=9145 F=0x4000 T=32 (#11) proto=17 - look at /etc/protocols - yes, udp This seems to be

Re: udp or tcp?

2000-09-24 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:57:06AM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: [snip protocol stuff] Thanks, informative. This seems to be a broadcast by the DHCP server of my cable provider, right? 67 == BOOTP server, 68 == BOOTP client. It appears to be a machine (10.209.80.109) broadcasting a

Allow port 113? / IRC question

2000-09-23 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Should I allow packets coming into my port 113? auth113/tcp authentication tap ident When doing ftp and also irc, I get packets onto that port. So, should I allow them to enter or is it unsafe to do so? Or is the better solution to REJECT those packets explicitly? (I

logged packets

2000-09-23 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi boys'n girls I have these entries in my logs: Sep 23 22:07:27 host kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 \ 62.2.XX.XX:67 62.2.XX.XX:68 L=328 S=0x00 I=59001 F=0x4000 T=250 (#32) Sep 23 22:07:27 host kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 \ 62.2.XX.XX:67

Apache with Servlet support

2000-09-19 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I'd simply like to know how easy it is to run Apache with Servlet support under Debian. Has anyone experiences with this? I am trying to compile Apache with Servlet support (JServ) and am having troubles with it. I use JDK and Sun's JSDK. (Intentionally not posting errors now) Anyone

Port 118

2000-09-16 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello What's port 118 for? I can't find it in /etc/services though I have it in my logs as a denied (outgoing) packet (destination port is 118). Regards Sven -- I can't be wrong, my modem's got error-correction.

Re: corruption during power loss

2000-09-15 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:13:53PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: your other option is using a Journeling filesystem such as Reiser or ext3 (reiser i think is more mature at this point but still has some serious limitations such as being unsuitable for use on /) It's time for Linux to integrate a

Re: suid root

2000-09-15 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:18:37PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: If this machine is in your home *and* your internet connection is via intermittent dial-up with dynamic IP adressing, I say no big deal. If you have persistant internet connection (via LAN, xDSL, Cable) your risk goes way up.

Finding owner of IP

2000-09-15 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi guys Given an IP, how can I find out who the owner is with the tools available on my potato box here? Thanks Sven -- We will run this with the same kind of openness we have run Windows, Steve Ballmer on their .net service

Re: Finding owner of IP

2000-09-15 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:27:54PM +0100, Jeff Green wrote: whois Thanks to all. whois is good. Sven -- We will run this with the same kind of openness we have run Windows, Steve Ballmer on their .net service

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-14 Thread Sven Burgener
Sorry to reply to my own mail, but hey, I finally got my cable connection working and I'm willing to share what I've learnt. ;-) The problems I experienced were with the method my cable provider uses to get their clients authenticated / initialized / connected. This is what happens: o

Re: masq settings with /etc/init.d/networking script

2000-09-13 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:23:13PM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: I just setup my Linux box to use the new /etc/init.d/networking startup script. I was using the old /etc/init.d/network script from the sysvinit examples. Can someone tell me where I'm supposed to put calls to ipchains to setup my

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:02:45AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: Maybe the software in the distributions is about the same, but the distros themselves sure aren't. Right. Support. OH yes support. The first time I set up RH (first linux ever) I naturally had some problems and questions. I

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-10 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:15:25PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: You might also try: $ man foo | col -b ...to output straight ascii. Thanks, that's simple and nice. Regards Sven -- The UNIX Guru's view of sex: unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount

Re: hdparm

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:44:15AM -0500, Jamie Raymond wrote: Where's the best place to put a call to hdparm so that it gets invoked upon booting? (would inserting it into an existing file in /etc/init.d be appropriate?) Perhaps /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh? Otherwise, just create your own script

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:41:06AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: What's the story with /etc/rc.boot/? Is it deprecated? Is it good? Taken from man rc.boot: [snip] The /etc/rc.boot directory is obsolete. It has been super­ seded by the /etc/rcS.d directory. At boot time, first the

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? When I do :r! man blabla in vi, I get funny characters at some places. Using man's --ascii option didn't help. You can use Emacs

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 01:29:32PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another way would be to directly use troff/nroff. Which is how? Never done this so please help me out a little. Well you can do something like this: 13:27:57/usr/man/man1$ zcat

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 11:41:32PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: OK. The trick is to get man to output in PostScript format: man -t will do it. Then use the utility psnup (one of the GNU pstools package.). It will print two or more pages of the man output onto one page, thus saving some

Free X Server for WinDos

2000-09-08 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello The subject says it all. I found MI/X, but that seems not to be free anymore. Isn't there anything that's good *and* free? Anyone share some experiences? Cheers Sven -- The program required me to install Windows 95 or better ... ... so I installed Linux.

core dump few Qs

2000-09-08 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Some questions to be answered: o How, if possible, can I deliberately cause a core dump on Linux? (Running potato / 2.2.17-pre6-1 kernel from the sources available in potato.) o Will the 2.2.17 sources for potato be updated anytime soon, now that the

Re: core dump few Qs

2000-09-08 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 09:24:27PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: that the *actualy 2.2.17 is out? (Currently -pre6-1) s/*actualy/actual/ :-P

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-06 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:30:13AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: dhclient (that's the name of the executable in the dhcp-client package) is the best (imo) dhcp client for unix-type systems. That would explain why NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD use dhclient in their bootup sequence when you select

Re: How to get proposed-updates.

2000-09-06 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:39:09PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: How do I edit my /etc/apt/sources.list to access the proposed-updates or potato-proposed-updates directory on the Debian mirrors. What are those proposed updates? How do they differ from the usual packages available online?

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-06 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:53:19PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: Read Sven's message below again - dhcpcd - this is not server software. Yup, note the 'c' in dhcpcd. Stands for client. And the binary behaves like a daemon in the way that it disconnects from the terminal and keeps running the way

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-05 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:04:19PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: MCSE ? In our part of the world that stands for Must Consult a Second Expert ! Does M$ have some other version of this acronym ? Yes, sure: Minesweeper Consultant, Solitaire Expert. :) Sven -- The UNIX Guru's view of sex: unzip ;

Re: sendmail reports I/O problem

2000-09-04 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi guys, it's me again. Problem's solved. On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 03:29:08AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: i agree with robert, it must be a prob with your ISP. In fact you're correct. The problem was at our provider whose routers / mail servers weren't playing like they intended them to.

Re: sendmail reports I/O problem

2000-09-04 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:44:11PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: (Although I didn't know that they proxy our outgoing SMTP connects. Is this usual? Never seen it before. I can only see it in the headers.) While i haven't encountered it personally im not suprised that a cable ISP(i think you

short-key in /etc/inittab

2000-09-03 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I have happily been using the Alt-Up key-combination, which can be configured in /etc/inittab: -- /etc/inittab snippet -- # Action on special keypress (ALT-UpArrow). #kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab to let this work. kb::kbrequest:/usr/sbin/pppd call bw ipparam

Re: networking problem

2000-09-03 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:28:30PM -0500, Mike McNally wrote: route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo success (but isn't this supposed to be done by a bootup script ifup?) Sorry to butt into the middle of this thread like this, but I shouldn't the default route be re-set by ifup -a? If I set the default

BIND setup

2000-09-02 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello When starting bind, I get the following entries syslog'd: Sep 2 21:04:41 host named[1753]: Zone 168.192.in-addr.arpa \ (file /etc/bind/homelan.ch.rev): No default TTL set using SOA \ minimum instead [...] Sep 2 21:04:41 host named[1753]: Zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa \

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-02 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:06:33PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: KEA to use any sort of ssh? Alternatively, does anyone know of a windows terminal package that is completely freeware that can use ssh? Place a search on Google for TeraTerm. Download it and also get the SSH extension to it. Nice

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:35:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: what's redirecting to '/dev/null' good for? here's an example. if you're not running 'fetchmail' as its own background daemon, to yank your email from various servers, you can have cron do it for you. the thing is, you get lots of

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:09:05PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:09:21PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Not to be mean or anything, but FYI fetchmail can be made silent with -s: -s, --silent work silently But then again, you probably already knew

Config'ing new 3Com NIC

2000-08-31 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I got a new NIC for my system! It's a 3Com Etherlink XL PCI 3C900B-TPO. Apparently, dmesg reports nothing about it when rebooting: pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices... Found PCnet/PCI at 0xffe0, irq 10. eth0: PCnet/PCI 79C970 at 0xffe0, 08 00 09 9e 73 2e assigned IRQ 10.

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:47:44PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote: Complain about old Apache, ProFTP: If you always want the latest fixes, you need to get the stuff from the sources (Eg www.apache.org) Debian back-ported the relevant security patches that were available up until potato was

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:47:53PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Debian back-ported the relevant security patches that were available up until potato was released. Be sure to check out the slashdot story going on about this. I need to correct myself: Security upgrades are released after

sendmail reports I/O problem

2000-08-28 Thread Sven Burgener
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 Recipient [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok DATA 354 Ok Send data ending with CRLF.CRLF [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I/O error Waah! It takes ages until the final I/O error appears. Any help *greatly* welcomed. Please *do* CC me. Thanks Sven Burgener

Re: sendmail reports I/O problem

2000-08-28 Thread Sven Burgener
/section3.html#3.10 This applies to PPP / SLIP lines. Sorry, my fault, I forgot to mention that this is a cable modem link. I still can't get to the bottom of this... Sven -- -- Sven Burgener Object

Re: kernel 2.2.2 newbie question

2000-08-28 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 12:01:12PM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: That's what I'm confused about, I am thinking, perhaps in error that 2.2.2 is a later version than 2.2.16. Is that wrong? Yes, 2 is smaller than 16. It's not .20 versus .16. Regards Sven -- Windows does *not* have bugs. It just

Re: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?]

2000-08-27 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 04:42:13PM +, Pollywog wrote: Since the most recent IP address change, I have been seeing in my logs attempted connections to ports 137, 138, and 139 but I am not concerned because I am guessing that someone was running a server there before I got the IP address.

Re: Is it just me or.......

2000-08-25 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 07:07:06PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: You are not the only one. I had 330 messages in my mailbox today. 450 for me. This is too much! Sven

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